Word: slimmed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hours later, Lewis proceeded to clock 19.75 sec. in the 200, missing the record held by Italy's Pietro Mennea by a slim .03 sec. The day before, his 10.27 time won the 100 meters (his best is 9.96 sec., .01 off Jim Hines' world mark). The University of Houston senior shrugged off his Indianapolis performances. "I don't worry about times and records. I'm my own competition," he said. "And I think there are going to be some absolutely unheard-of things coming from...
...fact, while prospects for any kind of rapprochement between the Magaña government and the guerrillas remain slim, U.S. Special Envoy Richard Stone nonetheless returned from a twelve-day, ten-country "listening tour" of Central America in an unexpectedly sanguine mood about starting some kind of dialogue between the rebels and the Salvadoran government. He is expected to express an emphasis on reconciliation in his report to the President this week. Predicted one National Security Council staffer: "I would not be at all surprised to see a dialogue worked out." The Magaña government, backed by the Reagan...
...successful in being admitted to both Stanford and Harvard. Yet my chances of attending either are slim. These institutions, as well as the College Scholarship Service, determined that I could afford to finance my education. As it now stands, the rich can manage. The poor are helped along. But those of us in the middle class get squeezed...
This time the debate was sparked by a slim book published by the Government Printing Office: A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform. Warning of "a rising tide of mediocrity" in public schools, the 36-page report by the N.C.E.E. is already into a third printing, with 81,000 copies distributed. It recommends a basic core curriculum for all high school students, stricter admission requirements for college, longer school days and years, more homework, and the recruiting and rewarding of better teachers. Echoing the Sputnik scare, the report concludes, "If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose...
...state shook hands, the cameras captured more than just the encounter of two important leaders. They also showed the meeting of representatives of two diametrically opposed solutions to the world's economic recession. So far, neither solution has worked. And, as the summit conference highlighted, the future holds but slim prospects for either...